Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Joel Arnold

Mrs. Mcormick

English II

3 March 2023

Communities and Challenges Synthesis Essay

Roughly 6 million European Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust causing 2 in every 3 Jewish people to be killed. The Holocaust caused the Jewish population in Europe to decrease drastically making surviving the Holocaust a very rare thing that Elie Weisel and 90% of the Danish Jewish population had done, the UDHR was created shortly after this to make sure an event like this never happened again. “Why 90% of Danish Jews Survived the Holocaust” by Erin Blakemore informs the reader about how the Danish people helped save a large majority of their Jewish community by helping them in every little way possible. Night by Elie Weisel describes his

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, “The Danish people didn’t have pre-existing plans designed to help the Jews. But nearby Sweden offered an obvious haven to those who were about to be deported. Neutral and still unoccupied by the Nazis, the country was a fierce ally.”(Section 4) Although Sweden offered to house the Danish Jews, the Danish people had to figure out a way to get the Jewish people out of the country without being caught. The Danish fisherman offered to ferry them across the 3-mile stretch across the Danish coast for them to make it to Sweden safely, this solved the problem of getting caught trying to escape. Because of the actions of the fisherman, the Danish Jews escaped the Nazi raid on Denmark which made the Danish people successful in saving

In the novel Night, Elie Weisel survives multiple concentration camps and aids his father through willpower. Throughout his experiences in the camps, his father falls ill and Weisel had thought “I no longer dared to believe that he could still elude Death. I did all I could to give him hope.” (pg.108) Elie Weisel and his father had to go through the struggles of the Holocaust without any help from others and had to rely on each other. Elie Weisel only had his father with him his whole time in the concentration camps, but when his father became very ill, he didn’t want to lose him. So he provided for and helped his father even sharing his rations when he was on his deathbed and couldn’t move. Elie and his father's goal of surviving the Holocaust weren’t completely successful. In the end, his efforts were futile. His father dies and he’s left alone for the remainder of his time in the camp and has to survive on his